'a medium for fleas': Beckett, Mitrani and 1950s-1960s French Television Drama

Abstract

Taking Michel Mitrani's Tous ceux qui tombent as a starting point, this chapter outlines Samuel Beckett's changing relationship towards and with the televisual medium in the often-overlooked context of French TV drama and the significant transformations it was undergoing in the late 1950s and the 1960s.

Keywords

• Beckett
• Mitrani
• television
• camera